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Fandom Promo: The Swan (1956)
Jul. 6th, 2024 10:48 amTitle: The Swan
Where to view it: You can buy "The Swan" on Apple TV, Amazon Video, Vudu as download or rent it on Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video online.
The Swan is the story of a former royal family scheming to get their eldest daughter, Princess Alexandra, married to Crown Prince Albert so they can reclaim the throne they lost. (We're never told the name of the nation in question.)
Grace Kelly is the Princess being pushed in the Crown Prince's direction; Alec Guinness is the Crown Prince who's spent the last several years getting shoved at every eligible princess in Europe and is very unenthusiastic (and slightly rude) about the whole matter. Louis Jourdan plays the family tutor Doctor Agi, who has been in love with the Princess--silently--for a while. When Prince Albert isn't interested, her mother orders her to flirt with Agi to make Albert jealous. It works, sort of, but Agi gets very hurt in the process, and Alexandra realizes she actually does care for him. Shenanigans follow and in the end Agi turns her down and leaves, and she is left to marry the Crown Prince.
( This story is explicitly set in 1910; all this effort and scheming to claw their way back into the world they think they ought to have by right, and in four years it's going to start crumbling, and in eight it will be gone forever. )
Where to view it: You can buy "The Swan" on Apple TV, Amazon Video, Vudu as download or rent it on Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video online.
The Swan is the story of a former royal family scheming to get their eldest daughter, Princess Alexandra, married to Crown Prince Albert so they can reclaim the throne they lost. (We're never told the name of the nation in question.)
Grace Kelly is the Princess being pushed in the Crown Prince's direction; Alec Guinness is the Crown Prince who's spent the last several years getting shoved at every eligible princess in Europe and is very unenthusiastic (and slightly rude) about the whole matter. Louis Jourdan plays the family tutor Doctor Agi, who has been in love with the Princess--silently--for a while. When Prince Albert isn't interested, her mother orders her to flirt with Agi to make Albert jealous. It works, sort of, but Agi gets very hurt in the process, and Alexandra realizes she actually does care for him. Shenanigans follow and in the end Agi turns her down and leaves, and she is left to marry the Crown Prince.
( This story is explicitly set in 1910; all this effort and scheming to claw their way back into the world they think they ought to have by right, and in four years it's going to start crumbling, and in eight it will be gone forever. )
